Meeting Minutes - Jan. 16, 2005
by Paul Peterson

The Lego race and line following challenge continued as Lego-built vehicles followed a single closed loop of black tape around a table. Last month, the vehicles were required to ‘drag-race’ along a straight line, in pairs.

Changes to the CIRC website were discussed.

Apollo Theater is hosting a special robot-themed event. They will show movies relevant to the theme, and have speakers on various topics. Additional speakers are needed. Possible topics: New concepts, real-world applications, artificial intelligence, etc.

Caterpillar is sponsoring "First Robotics", a team-oriented competition/challenge for local area high schools. Mentors are needed to assist the high school teams in the following year. For children younger than high school, "Lego First" will utilize Lego-based robots and introduce the children to robotics.

Efforts are underway to get Servo Magazine into schools and public libraries.

A new clear variation of hexapod-walker was brought in (a new Lynxmotion robotics kit).

Paul Pawelski concluded with the Learn to Solder class. Future classes are planned.

Next meeting: Feb 20